Contents

Introduction

Please help and add ideas to the projects wiki pages. (for instance the features page)

Features

This list includes all the actions it should be able to do (even trivial ones)

Should be able to:

Install

Remove

Upgrade

Update

Handle configuration files changes

Ignore dependencies

Restrict certain packages upgrades

Check if a new version of itself exists before installing other packages.

List all/installed/upgradeable packages

search for a package by name/description

download only

probe all info about a package

be able to set different config file

be able to set different root dir

be able to force downgrade

be able to tell whether to cache or not to cache packages

be able to do a "dry run"

ignore restrictions (like deps/conflicts and such)

progress indication!

multi repos?

install from repo/url/local

Design choices

It seems like using sqlite3 and libcurl are the best solutions for our purposes.
I'm considering using glib as well for data structures, though about that I'm still not sure and would like someone to help me think about pros and cons.

In conclusion:

Probable dependencies:

sqlite3

libcurl

Volunteers

Please add yourself to this list if you think you'd like to give us a hand (specify nick/name, area of expertise and a way to contact)

Introduction

Please help and add ideas to the projects wiki pages. (for instance the features page)

Features

This list includes all the actions it should be able to do (even trivial ones)

Should be able to:

Install

Remove

Upgrade

Update

Handle configuration files changes

Ignore dependencies

Restrict certain packages upgrades

Check if a new version of itself exists before installing other packages.

List all/installed/upgradeable packages

search for a package by name/description

download only

probe all info about a package

be able to set different config file

be able to set different root dir

be able to force downgrade

be able to tell whether to cache or not to cache packages

be able to do a "dry run"

ignore restrictions (like deps/conflicts and such)

progress indication!

multi repos?

install from repo/url/local

Design choices

It seems like using sqlite3 and libcurl are the best solutions for our purposes.
I'm considering using glib as well for data structures, though about that I'm still not sure and would like someone to help me think about pros and cons.

In conclusion:

Probable dependencies:

sqlite3

libcurl

Volunteers

Please add yourself to this list if you think you'd like to give us a hand (specify nick/name, area of expertise and a way to contact)